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Rated: E · Book · Entertainment · #2268464
Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
July 18, 2023 at 6:59am
July 18, 2023 at 6:59am
#1052748
Diary of a Happy Man

I gave up some time ago
my dreams to fly away;
these airborne journeys to and fro
so rarely seem to pay,
and now they frisk you everywhere
‘fore letting you on the plane,
I’ll stay beyond all strangers’ stares -
to move would be insane.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 07.1823
Prompt: Fly away.



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